Daylight Saving Time 2015: Did you keep in mind to turn your clock back?

There you go. You are officially prepared.

Daylight Saving Time begins at 2 a.m. Set clocks ahead one hour.

Love it or hate it, this weekend is when we steal an hour of daylight from the evenings and add it to the mornings.

“With a child, they don’t understand so he goes to sleep early wakes up at 5:00 and I was up last night three different times”, said Jerika Labonte, from Indian Orchard.

A typical person should be able to adjust to the new time change within a day or two, he said. Many people would like to permanently abolish the increasingly controversial practice, although most do not mind the extra hour of sleep they get in the fall. The Navajo Nation observes Daylight Saving Time. Assemblyman Chris Edwards, from Nevada, is part of the group that asks for this change -at least on his state.

While most of the world does abide by Daylight Saving Time in their respective zone; however, the states of Arizona and Hawaii do not observe the time change. The U.S.is only on Standard Time for four months out of the year, meaning the country is actually on Daylight Saving Time for eight months. Most recently, the Utah state legislature rejected a bill that would have ended it and another hasn’t made it out of the House Rule committee, KSTU-TV reported. In 1974, President Richard Nixon implemented the Emergency Daylight Saving Time Energy Conservation Act establishing bi-annual time change nationwide.

Roosevelt instituted year-round daylight saving time from February 9, 1942, to September 30, 1945.

What you need to know about iPhone Daylight Saving Time changes. At the start of Standard Time, we have to deal with things like it getting dark earlier, and other inconveniences.

A few studies have indicated that crime rates during daylight saving time drop by about 1 percent, while other studies find no change.

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The shorter days and the end of Daylight Saving Time are associated with the beginning of the SAD (seasonal affected disorder) season, giving people less daylight to enjoy after they got off work.